Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WOOD-PU'CE-RON
WOOD-PU'CE-RON, n. [wood and puceron.]
A small in sect of a grayish color, having two hollow horns on the hinder part of its body. It resembles the puceron of the alder, but it penetrates into the wood. – Cyc.
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